Re: [PATCH][pci-next] PCI: endpoint: fix incorrect end of table check in while loop

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 05:03:03PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, the while loop will iterate until a matching name is found
> or until the id pointer wraps around to NULL (the latter is incorrect).
> 
> The end of a pci_epf_device_id table is terminated with zero'd entries
> for name and driver_data, so can change the while loop to iterate while
> the first character in the name is a non-zero character.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1454557 ("Logically dead code")
> 
> Fixes: 9e9d6eb48623 ("PCI: endpoint: Add an API to get matching "pci_epf_device_id")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Kishon, do you want to ack this, please?

> ---
>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> index ae6fac5995e3..70eccc04ee7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ pci_epf_match_device(const struct pci_epf_device_id *id, struct pci_epf *epf)
>  	if (!id || !epf)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	while (id) {
> +	while (*id->name) {
>  		if (strcmp(epf->name, id->name) == 0)
>  			return id;
>  		id++;
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 
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